tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 33

HOSPITAL FACES EXCLUSIONFROM MEDICARE

OIG pursues "death penalty" against Tenet facility. Exclusion from Medicare: It's one of the harshest and most financially devastating penalties the HHS Office of Inspector General can impose on a hospital. But if the stakes are perceived to be high enough, the watchdog agency isn't afraid to use it. Tenet Healthcare Corp. revealed Sept. 4 that the OIG is launching proceedings that could result in the exclusion of Redding Medical Center from Medicare and other federal health care programs. The OIG maintains that, between 1999 and 2002, RMC "furnished cardiology and cardiac services (including several cardiac catheterizations and coronary...

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